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Autofiction Intensive

Autofiction straddles the real and imagined, offering writers a way to explore the emotional truths of lived experience without being bound by hard facts and accuracy.   In this sixteen-week workshop, we’ll explore the ins

Reading Across Cultures: Freedom and Elasticity in Latin American Literature

American writers are often taught to keep stories tidy: clear arcs, legible realism, characters who behave as expected. Latin American literature offers a different inheritance—elastic, intuitive, imaginative, adn deeply rooted in cultural interiority. In this lineage, the boundary between the real

Audio Narratives: Memoir, Commentary, & More

This class meets IN PERSON at Hugo House in Capitol Hill.  Audio stories feel intimate by nature—a voice in your ear, a moment unfolding in real time, punctuated by breath and silence—creating connection in a way

Reading for Writers

This class meets IN PERSON at Hugo House in Capitol Hill.  Most writers eventually feel it—that subtle shift when reading stops being purely immersive and starts becoming analytical. You’re halfway through a

Reading Deeply: Middlemarch by George Eliot

George Eliot once called her writing "a set of experiments in life," and nowhere is that truer than in Middlemarch: her sweeping, tender, incisive study of a town and the people who

Flash Fiction Fundamentals

Flash fiction is small but mighty: it asks for the precision of poetry, the heart of a short story, and the courage to leave things unsaid.  In this six-week generative workshop, we’ll focus

How to Read a Poem

This class meets IN PERSON at Hugo House in Capitol Hill.  This class is accompanied by a student reading performance on Wednesday, March 25, 2026 from 7 – 9 PM PT at Hugo House. This is an optional (but

Fiction Intensive

This class meets IN PERSON at Hugo House in Capitol Hill. Face masks are required and will be available at the Hugo House front desk.  Remember the last novel you tore through in a

Finding the Poet Within

For the late-night scribblers. The Notes app confessionalists. The ones writing poems in the margins of everything else.  If you’ve been keeping your poetry close—or are just beginning to fall

Spellbound: Poetry as Alchemy

“Art dwells at the crossroads between what in us is body, what in us is emotion, what in us is history, and what in us is mind.” – Jane Hirshfield

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